Foster The People

I can't blame you I can't save you But I will try For you and I For you and I I won't found out All the dirty little things that you've done But I will try I.... I..... I’m coming for you giants and you liars and your chariots of fire You charmers...

[Verse 1] I woke up on Champs-Élysées to the Djembe of Ghana A fine lady from Belize said "You got the spirit of a Fela" A young one dripping make-up put her hands out to holla And I gave her what I got but couldn't handle her broken heart The right words...

Well I've tried to live like the way that you wanted me to. Never needed the proof, just followed the rules. I pick up all the pieces and I move my feet as fast as I can. I'm always falling behind, just float in the lines. You want more and ambition's take...

(When your best friend's all strung out) You'll do everything you can Cause you're never gonna let it get em down (When you find it all around) Yeah, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start Feelings, sleeping in the field again, But, I can fe...

I've broken every law All the words come out my broken jaw I don't know anything But then I act like I know everything Don't wanna talk about it What do you see when you dream about it? Well I have been broke down from my enemies I'm drifting farther f...

Call it what you want I said just call it what you want Yeah we're locked up in ideas We like to label everything Well I'm just gonna do here what I gotta do here 'Cause I gotta keep myself free You're ducking and moving just to hide your bruises...

Today I walked through the door and fell down on my floor Got all of my papers out and read them Seems that I have been wanderin' for a little too long Yeah, the desert can be hot if you're wasted Took a stab in the dark and missed again, I believe The ha...

Well, I see you standing there like a rabid dog And you got those crying eyes Makes me wanna surrender and wrap you in my arms You know I try to live without regrets I'm always moving forward and not looking back But I tend to leave a trail of death while...

Just close your eyes We're gonna run this light We live our lives Yeah, we're not wasting time Baby, we lost our minds We're gonna get, gonna get Get what we can We're not doing it for the money Doing it for the money Doing it for the money Doing it...

Walk little walk small talk big thoughts Gonna tell 'em all just what I want That street two streets I see you and me Hanging on the empty swings Count high low, don't worry my eyes are closed I'm the superman and it's my show One shoe two gonna kick with my...

Hey turn around man I'm gonna take you downtown If you wanna grab a sack go ahead and do it My fear of death is set in place by a lie I glorified you there's the only way of life yeah My teeth were shakin', slowly surely anticipating Yeah the wrinkles...

I like to stick to walls Observing conversations and lifting them when they fall I am a fire escape, my spine's made of iron And my heart pumps out old red paint Save yourself, save yourself, yourself Save yourself, save yourself I see the seasons chan...

Well I was caught inside the wreck Never found my way out, I was filled with indifference The animals were getting tired So I sang them a song 'cause they promised not to take too long I can’t find my way back home I’ll listen to you if you want me to...

[Verse 1] Face me and embrace the pressure We were made for another time (When you need me I'll be there) (Say my name, yeah I'm right here) Let's drift away in fits of pleasure You're a beautiful design (Say you need me face your fears) (Say my name,...

Sometimes life it takes you by the hair, pulls you down Before you know it, it's gone and you're dead again I've been in places and I won't pretend Yeah I'd make it out just to fall on my head. Wake up strange and take the walk downstairs Hit the pawn up...

I got my eyes on you You’re everything that I see I want your high love and emotion endlessly I can't get over you You left your mark on me I want your high love and emotion endlessly Cause you're a good girl and you know it You act so different around...

Rise above, gonna start the war! What you want, what you need, what'd you come here for? Well, an eye for an eye and an 'F' for fight They're taking me down as the prisoners riot Got shackles on, my words are tied Fear can make you compromise With the l...

All my friends are, they're on vacation But I'm just stuck here in this parking lot Well, looking for a mirror, I'm looking at a screen These pixelated dreams are blowing up my pocket I'll find some action, and cut the scene I'm on a merry-go-round, I'm i...

Never want to stand upon myself Never want to get in the way... I said it I don’t know what the plan is, but you can share with me, ‘Cause I’ll be a listening ear, to everything you say, I won’t turn away and I will listen, Open up my heart and I must s...

[Verse 1] If age is a trap I wonder why I hold back Mistakes, mistake to make me laugh Only time can answer that [Chorus 1] Sail on in Beautiful is your life Sail on in I want to live in your love Forever [Verse 2] I'm done, I'm giving up control...

I wouldn't try to throw myself away If you asked me, I'd say To be careful, my love At death we'll leave the same If you want me to stay Don't keep me waiting for it We can't change the things we can't control It's summer somewhere so you shouldn't be...

Yet again, I'm hustling, hustling, hustling [x3] But I can't seem to catch a dime Take a little hit and I lose the time I took the man and his horse And ran before he looked up I said the light's gonna change But I'm calm and feeling warm And now I'm s...

I could never be like you I don't ever talk like that Smiling with a sparkling drink And stumbling in your lipstick mess Molly was the loss of this Yeah, it was a tragedy But you keep hanging on With a vacant look, just waiting around For someone to ta...

Hello, my name is Mark I play gentlemen's games And I slip through I'm creepin' through the night's parade, I shake a hand or two, I tip my hat to you. I'm always runnin' and a-jumpin' like A fool always do Until wow, I see her, she sees me We could...

[Verse 1] Parading to the masses We're coming so fresh to death I've been stealing looks from shadows You conjure with your purse Yeah you're walking in stilettos But your nose is bleeding out I've been running from the devil But the devil's on my back...

Putting your patience to the test Putting your body on the line, for less Didn't you know there was a choice? It's never yours but someone else's voice Selling your body to the street Selling your girlfriend's to the night for cheap Wearing a jacket made...

Forget your problems Lay it down, they start up The innocence of what you are is what I want I've ran my colors dripped down and drained out Tried a million things, but my heart's been shot I hope you try to find me, I'm all spun and pacing I know what...

Well let's take off from the start I know you've tried all this before And did your best to fight the war And break it off But if I follow my name I will calm you in the storm And breathe you in when you are worn Be still my love Would it take a shooti...

[Intro] Doctor Afro Mal-Funkenstein [Instrumental] [Outro] Doctor Funkenstein 

What you mean, what you mean? What you mean, man, what you mean? What you mean, yeah, what you see? What you see, yeah, oh yeah Well I need a little something to pull my head off Need a little something to pull my head off, yeah Need a little something...

Never went to college Leave your comments in the message box He walks like Elvis Presley 'Cause his Bentley cost a million bucks She's hanging out the window And she's saying my name (Say my name) Her head out of the window and she's saying my name I h...

Faded and worn at the seams, A psychotropic wanderlust Sick and laughing their words bared their teeth into the wall I promised I would rid the world of feral animals I see you smiling with your feet up like your heroses You'd off yourself to save your r...

Robert's got a quick hand He'll look around the room, he won't tell you his plan He's got a rolled cigarette Hanging out his mouth, he's a cowboy kid Yeah, he found a six-shooter gun In his dad's closet with a box of fun things And I don't even know wha...

And there she goes She was sitting really nice With a head full of advice from friends She walks around She tries to rearrange But everything goes under her bed And it’s countless She’s got a jar full of change Saved up for vacation And she's...

You are our secret It's worth keeping And now I'm keeping my mouth shut On the weekends I won't hang out with anybody else The pavement Always baking What's it want from me? And I keep falling backwards Looking for relief Want to be free I've been...

And it's over, it's over I'm circling these vultures Got me praying and it's hunger Feeling something rotten Last time I saw you said "What's up?" And pushed right through Then I tried to catch you But we're always on the move And now it's over, we're...

A circuit lightning You glisten back It started shifts, started shift of love One morning I did try To call him by his name But my men didn't know when to come around How long, how long will we try to make it together It's too long, it's too long, we c...

We're born to die so I'm gonna fight for how I wanna live Spark up the riots, I guess I'm a criminal and a futurist With the charges I've caught won't stand your trial You can take it out on me, yeah I've been to hell but I've learned to keep my cool Hol...

Well capitalistic feast has been sucking the heat You're passing up, you're injured for ability Well, I've been waiting for a compromise but I guess it's more the same We're separated all the things that we want for gain You remember your name Well they w...

Well I've been trying to re-learn my name it seems like a thousand years I've been out of frame and I surrender, the truth is what what I've needed from you I've been floating within your walls of opinion And I'm tired.I only want the truth. I have tr...

Well Mr. Jones took a terrible fall He had built the stairs but he hadn't counted them all And the lights and the pain said it would rain He said it would snow He always said that, wherever he would go And he would write down his thoughts on the wall So...

[Verse] I had been hopeful that I would have the time to get closer to you If you wanted me to I feel like crying the more I think about the times that I tried To say the things I was thinking of At the time 

Well I've been judged I've been a bug unknown I know all about it but my heart is strong I've been away been running to save my head Yeah the warrant's out and I'm almost dead I won't say what I've already said [x2:] Got to get away Yeah, the warrants...

I'll hold your hand when you are feeling mad at me Yeah, when the monsters they won't go and your windows don't close, I'll pretend to see what you see "How long?" I say, how long, will you relive the things that are gone? Oh yeah, the devil's on your back...

All my worst nights are the best times West Coast stealin' all my shut-eye All my worst nights are the good kind High life filtered through the lo-fi Startin’ it up after dark Chasin' thoughts, cruisin' through Echo Park Joined the vultures eatin’ parad...